mitt romney had a good night. and the chickens are coming home to roost or if gravity in the selection should favor the challenger and now it is beginning to hearing after hearing, in the weeks ahead, this is a very difficult moment for this administration. irrespective of the political context. >> i agree with that. i think it is a difficult moment. very serious mistakes were made with the situation in libya that had to do with security and intelligence and the rest of it. the result was that hideous outcome that we saw there. the administration put out statements that were not based on the whole lot of information that we had on hand. we have people like jay carney saying that there was no evidence that this was anything other than anything other than reaction to the video triggered by the protests in cairo. there are reasons to suspect there was a cover-up here. i think that even the administration's dilemmas. lou: politically, as we watch what happened with the debate, economic policies, but as you say, the pr